Little Feat – Sailin Shoes (CD)
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Lowell George was one of rock's great unsung architects, a slide guitarist and songwriter whose grease-and-gumbo sensibility didn't fit neatly into any California scene. Sailin' Shoes, originally released in 1972, captures the band at their most rawboned, before the horn-driven arrangements and funkier textures of later records filled out their sound. George's writing here already carries that signature slant, world-weary and witty in equal measure.
Sailin' Shoes demonstrates just how briskly Little Feat was developing in their early 1970s formative years. A pronounced step up from the Southern California quartet's critically praised 1971 debut, it's not as fully realized as the Feat's 1973 zenith, Dixie Chicken. But it's not far behind, and that's saying something. The final recording made by the original quartet (the band swelled to six members after founding bassist and Mothers of Invention alumni Roy Estrada split), Little Feat circa 1972 is a lean, energetic outfit. "Cold, Cold, Cold," "Tripe Face Boogie," "Apolitical Blues," and "Teenage Nervous Breakdown" are blunter rockers than what would follow. Lowell George's title track and Bill Payne's "Got No Shadow" and "Cat Fever," meanwhile, presage the more limber direction the group was headed
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UPC: 075992725828
Label: Warner Records
Release Date: 10.25.90
Format: CD